The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Amendments of 1988 Regulations

2.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1988(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) the definition of “Special Area” shall be omitted.

(3) At the end of regulation 1 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(3) For the purposes of these Regulations a Special Area is any of the following areas, that is to say the Baltic Sea area, the North Sea area, the Antarctic area, and the Wider Caribbean Region; and the said areas are respectively defined as follows—

(a) “the Baltic Sea area” means the Baltic Sea proper with the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland and the entrance to the Baltic Sea bounded by the parallel of the Skaw in the Skagerrak at 57°44.8'N;

(b) “the North Sea area” means all sea areas within the following boundaries (including the North Sea proper and the English Channel and its approaches)—

(i) to the north, the boundary constituted by the 62°N parallel from Norway westward to 4°W meridian and thence southward to Scotland;

(ii) to the east, the boundary constituted by the parallel 57°44.8'N east of the Skaw in the Skagerrak;

(iii) to the south, the boundary constituted by the parallel 48°30'N from France westward to 5°W meridian and thence northward to England;

(c) “the Antarctic area” means the sea area south of latitude 60°S;

(d) “the Wider Caribbean Region” means the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea proper including the bays and seas therein and that portion of the Atlantic Ocean within the boundary constituted by the 30°N parallel from Florida eastward to 77°30'W meridian, thence a rhumb line to the intersection of 20°N parallel and 59°W meridian, thence a rhumb line to the intersection of 7°20'N parallel and 50°W meridian, thence a rhumb line drawn southwesterly to the eastern boundary of French Guiana.”.

(4) For regulation 6 there shall be substituted the following regulations—

“6.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, the disposal from a ship into the sea within a Special Area of food wastes is prohibited except where it is made as far as practicable, and in any case not less than 12 miles, from the nearest land.

(2) Subject to regulation 7, the disposal into the sea within the Wider Caribbean Region of food wastes which have been comminuted or ground to the required standard is prohibited except where it is made as far as practicable, and in any case not less than 3 miles, from the nearest land.

6A.   A United Kingdom ship shall not enter the Antarctic area unless—

(a) it has sufficient capacity for the retention on board of all garbage while operating in the area; and

(b) it has concluded arrangements for the discharge of retained garbage at a reception facility after it has left the area.”.

(1)

S.I.1988/2292.